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Interview with Luz Marquez-Benbow on Memorial Altar at Freedom Square

by: The Sanctuary for Independent Media

Publication date: 2021-01-14

Topics: Arts &amp, Entertainment, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, Health &amp, Well-being, Peace, Social Justice &amp, Activism, Stories

Language: English

HMM's Erika Diggs and Justin Romero speak with Luz Marquez-Benbow: Black Boricua survivor of child sexual abuse, incest and rape, founder of Aya Rising : Truth Telling Project, and founding member of Troy4BlackLives. Luz is one of the organizers of the Memorial Altar: “Emerging from Darkness”
www.mediasanctuary.org/event/memorial-altar/

The Memorial Altar installation will welcome socially distanced groups of 10 or less to Freedom Square in North Troy, between this Sunday 1/17- Wednesday 1/20! The timing corresponds with MLK day on Monday 1/18 with a theme of “health justice,” Tuesday 1/19 coinciding with the National Memorial for Covid-19 Victims, through Inauguration Day Wednesday 1/20.